Event-Triggered Predictive Control for Networked Nonlinear Systems With Imperfect Premise Matching

This paper investigates the event-triggered predictive control problem for networked nonlinear systems with imperfect premise matching. First, a model of networked nonlinear system is well constructed, which has integrated the event-triggered communication scheme (ETCS) and the predictive control together, in which, an ETCS is introduced to alleviate the communication burden by reducing the number of transmitted packets; and a fuzzy predictive controller is designed to predict future states and control signals between two successfully transmitted instants. Therefore, the data dropout induced by the networks can be actively compensated. Second, by using a common Lyapunov theory, a stability criterion and two stabilization criteria are deduced to ensure the asymptotical stability of the studied system and find the controller gains, respectively. Different from the traditional parallel distributed compensation method, the synchronous premise variables between the T-S fuzzy system and the fuzzy event-triggered predictive controller (FETPC) are no longer needed again. Since the imperfect premise matching condition is well considered in the derivation of the main results, the design flexibility and low cost of the FETPC implementation can be expected. Finally, the validity of the method proposed in this paper is demonstrated by a nonlinear mass-spring example.